Designer: Vasa Velizar Mihich (b. 1933) 

Item: Pair  of Vasa Octagon Cubes

Manufactured by: Vasa Velizar Mihich

Country of origin: United States

Year made: 1994 (smaller) and 1999 (larger)

Materials: Laminated Acrylic

Dimensions: Larger is 3" x  3" x 3" and smaller 2” x 2” x 2”

Description:  Here is a pair of Vasa Mihich octagon cubes in laminated acrylic that are matching in color sequences.  Each is a unique work, and not part of a set of cubes as is regularly found.  Both are signed and dated as shown. 

Vasa Velizar Mihich (born 1933), known as Vasa, is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.   Mihich was born in Yugoslavia and moved to the United States in 1960.  An academically trained painter he was also a professor at the University of California in its Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image.  He makes laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light.

Vasa’s work has been exhibited in art galleries in the United States, Japan, and Italy and in the permanent collections of important public museums such as the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Denver Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art and many others.

Condition: Very good.Both are very good condition with the normal amount of very light scratches from use as paperweights or desk accessories.The larger one has one scratch about 3/4" long that can be felt but hardly seen in the fifth photo.But neither have any chips or losses as are often found on his vintage pieces.